Döndü K. was 73 years old. She was sent from the emergency department to the outpatient clinic for hospitalisation and it was Monday.
She was in a wheelchair, not fully conscious and appeared confused with meaningless requests and movements left and right. In the message sent by the emergency physician, it was stated that he was referred for observation in the ward due to low sodium and high urea.
We had just had an unfavourable discussion with the physician in charge of the ward about the place and bed. While referring him to other hospitals, I did not neglect to write my own opinions about whether he should be given the following treatment, given at the following speed, and whether he should take the following medication or not.
I made the referral by asking for control information after three days at the latest. Two more days had passed. When it was Friday and the fifth day came, the patient came to the check-up standing upright with his wife and son, and when I thought that he spoke in a very lively voice as if he was angry, “My son, what have you done to me?” I asked him, “What have I done to you? Aren’t you our aunt who was in a wheelchair just five days ago, why are you talking as if you are asking for an account?” I said, “My son, you misunderstood me, I was a paralysed woman, after your treatment, my paralysis has passed, my mind has been restored, the chair is over, what kind of a doctor you are, my child, you brought me back to life! God bless you!” When I realised that she was trying to express her gratitude in this way, I asked “Wait a minute, do you mean that while you were paralysed before, now that paralysis and other problems have suddenly disappeared?” When the family said “Yes, teacher, you gave us an event like a miracle”, I was surprised because I did not know the patient before. Let’s say we threw out the wrong drugs and gave treatment, but such extra healing was really very interesting.
It turned out that our aunt had a heart rhythm problem and a clot in her brain. Our aunt, who had a stroke on her right side, cancelled many blood pressure medications and painkillers she was taking other than the medication given as a blood thinner due to side effects related to kidney function, and when they could not find a bed anywhere with the letter I gave, they applied the treatment I gave at home for three days despite all kinds of risks and reached such a result.
In other words, they were not even hospitalised. At that time, I had recommended a phytotherapy (herbal support) product containing a sodium-independent pure water diuresis (diuretic) effect. I realised that this product, which I believed would provide a brain-protective effect as well as lowering urea without disturbing the balance in osmolarity and which I knew from previous experience in the clinical field, contributed to this positive effect. When I had the opportunity to re-test this product, which is the natural equivalent and forty times cheaper than the very expensive tolvaptan molecule known as Samsca, especially in paralysed stroke patients in cases of confusion of consciousness with increased cerebrovascular effect, I realised that the positive interaction was from this extract.
As you know, the weed spreads uncontrollably above and below the ground, as if it were a perpetual weed. We often uproot them because of this unpleasant appearance on the lawn. But it grows and spreads again. It does not make us think that the transmission pathways of a brain whose connection with the blood supply has been terminated are functioning by activating new connection pathways in the same way. Perhaps, we do not know whether it provides the functions of the brain by providing side connections with such an effect.
It needs to be investigated. I am making this comment because it has a form of propagation that is very similar to the communication system of neurons. When the time comes, I hope that we will be able to investigate and write the result.
